This blog is an add-on to my main blog, cuttingwoodandstuff.blogspot.com, which is updates of prints in progress. This one will be a gallery of all my completed prints, and is only going to be updated when I finish a new print. I'm hoping it will give some insight into where I've been and where I'm trying to go with printmaking. I'll start with what pictures I have on hand, but soon I'll go dig up a couple prints I haven't seen since I made them around when I started.

Friday, March 5, 2010

Didn't like the teacher who wanted us to use a lot of screen, instead of just one color. I gave her the old DuChamp explanation. Failed that class. I forgot all about this old one though.

"Drugstore" detail

"This is a chair" - Woodcut - April 08

First shot at a woodcut - 10 minutes in, knew it was better than anything around. I love to carve.

"Lincoln" - Linocut, 9x12" May 08

He was a real good dude, considering his circumstances.

Detail

"Nighttime" - Color Wood cut - 4x9" Oct 08

Unhappy Results.

"Winter Scene" - Color Woodcut - 15x19" - Dec 08

First color woodcut I was happy with. Such a good feeling when the paper came off that key block.

Detail

"Behind Hiawatha" - Linocut - Oct 2009

Linolium! I like lots of lines, especially when the lines curve. Those are about the best kind. Linoum is good for this because it doesn't chip.

Detail

"Bracket Park - Dawn" Color Woodcut, 5x9" Nov 09

Park 3 blocks from my house. Grew up with it. Had some fun with this one

"Bracket Park - Nighttime"

Same key block used, Color done reductively

Same print, experimenting with colors, this one has a hand painted moon

"94 and Riverside", relief print on Masonite, 2x4' Dec 09

I drive this street to and from school a lot. You can't see it in the picture but the viewpoint is from the end of a bridge over a highway and just to the right is an exit, I saw this man a lot there last fall. Everything about him is from memory, the rest from standing and sketching. I haven't seen him there in a while though. One lesson learned though - 5$ sheet of 2x4' masonite is a good deal but not if you want to make a print with it. Tears like cardboard. It might have just been my tools though.

Here's a couple more views

The taco Bell on my block that Ive mostly grown up on closed down this fall. It made me sad.

He is pissed off already because 1) the material that makes his face up isn't dry and he doesn't like being wet and 2)that you would even think about looking at his catnip.

Thats about it since I started. I have one or two more I'll dig up, and if I use this blog as a way to show completed works, maybe I'll put up a few 2d non print related things. I just want to see my SA print I'm working on on this blog as soon as humanly possible. So I'm leaving for another all nighter at the studio now.

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I'm a student at the university of minnesota planning on graduating sometime, probably. I started making prints in the fall of 2007 and I made my first woodcut in April of 08. Now I spend my time making woodcuts and playing music and thats about it. But mostly woodcuts. I also try to attend my other classes. I started this blog to show anybody who might be interested what I'm up to and also to connect with the many awesome and inspiring woodcutters and printmakers I've seen on this site.